For several years, there has been a burgeoning segment of the IT profession known as business intelligence. A range of tools has been developed and used to assist businesses in mining valuable information from its own data to enable it to have more effective strategic and operational insights into executive decision making. Data analytics, as used herein, is similar to business intelligence. Because of the ways data analytics can be used and benefits gained from examining data, there is ample opportunity to apply the same methodology to IT assurance or IT reviews of this growing segment.